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Episode 10 – "Unbroken Faith" with Diane Dokko Kim

Through your journey in disability, have you have struggled with your relationship with God and questioned His faithfulness and promises in the Bible? If so, you will be greatly encouraged by today’s interview with Diane Dokko Kim, author of Unbroken Faith: Spiritual Recovery For The Special Needs Parent.

 
The best thing that I did for myself, probably the one thing I got right was to give myself permission to grieve. To give myself permission to be real about all of those questions that every single one of us have and to let myself grieve, doubt, to have questions and to even be angry. To even be angry at God and to raise those questions…The second thing is to take those questions and to wrestle with the word of God. As I wrestled with the word of God, it was amazing to find how relevant it was. To realize that God does understand this situation.
— Diane Dokko Kim
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Through your journey in disability, have you have struggled with your relationship with God and questioned His faithfulness and promises in the Bible? We often have the perception that if we do A and B, God will do C. In this interview, Diane Dokko Kim is real about the struggles she had, the journey she went through in wrestling with Him and how He brought her to a new understanding of His blessings.

Resources

www.DianeDokkoKim.com

Facebook: Diane Dokko Kim

 

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Episode 3 – "Different Dream Parenting" With Jolene Philo

This episode of the Hope Anew Disability podcast features Jolene Philo. Jolene Philo is the mother of a son born with life-threatening special needs…

 
He (God) knows the best path and He sets the best path for us, you just have to trust that. Trust His goodness. That it is the best thing for us.
— Jolene Philo
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SUMMARY


This episode of the Hope Anew Disability podcast features Jolene Philo. Jolene Philo is the mother of a son born with life-threatening special needs. In her twenty-five years of teaching experience, worked with children with special needs in the classroom. She has written several books about caregiving, parenting children with special needs, and special needs inclusion ministry. She speaks at disability parenting conferences around the country, conducts accreditation workshops for foster and adoptive parents, and trains special needs children’s ministry leaders and volunteers. She and her husband live in Iowa.

In this episode, Jolene shares valuable realizations about life through her journey that began as child, as her dad had multiple sclerosis and continued as an adult when doctors discovered their son had a tracheoesophageal fistula.

You can connect with Jolene Philo at her website: www.DifferentDream.com

Over time, I can look back that God was there every step of the way, and everything that happened to me, to my dad, to my son, to our family was preparation for what I’m doing now.
— Jolene Philo


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